Canto General, 50th Anniversary EditionFiftieth Anniversary Edition Neruda was a kind of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to poetry, says Gabriel Garc a M rquez, who also considers the Chilean Nobel laureate "the greatest poet of the twentieth century, in any language." [The Fragrance of Guava, 1983]. The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. The Canto speaks of the destiny of Latin American peoples and the life of the poet himself. Without question, this is one of the most important and powerful long poems written in the modern period. |
Contents
A LAMP ON EARTH 135 | 13 |
Minerals | 21 |
THE HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU | 29 |
THE CONQUISTADORS | 43 |
A Bishop | 49 |
The Agonies | 55 |
Land and Man Unite | 61 |
Despite the Fury | 68 |
The Heroes | 323 |
González Videla | 325 |
Didnt Suffer | 326 |
In These Times | 327 |
They Spoke to Me Before | 328 |
The Liars | 329 |
They Shall Be Named | 330 |
Homeland They Want to Parcel You Out | 331 |
Advancing in the Lands | 77 |
The Haciendas | 89 |
San Martín 1810 | 97 |
José Miguel Carrera 1810 | 103 |
Manuel Rodríguez | 108 |
Sucre | 114 |
Martí 1890 | 121 |
Sandino 1926 | 127 |
Recabarren 1921 | 136 |
Pronounced in Pacaembú | 144 |
THE SAND BETRAYED | 149 |
The Oligarchies | 161 |
The Nitrate Men | 187 |
González Videla Chiles Traitor | 200 |
Climates | 206 |
CANTO GENERAL OF CHILE | 213 |
Floods | 221 |
RedBreasted Meadowlark | 227 |
THE EARTHS NAME IS JUAN | 237 |
LET THE WOODCUTTER AWAKEN | 255 |
also wend my way | 261 |
But if you arm your hordes North America | 266 |
Let none of this come to pass | 269 |
Peace for the coming twilights | 270 |
THE FUGITIVE | 273 |
It was the grape autumn | 275 |
A young couple opened a door | 276 |
Again another night I went farther | 277 |
Window of the hills Valparaíso | 279 |
It was the dawning of saltpeter on the pampas | 280 |
love Valparaíso everything you enfold | 281 |
Ive ranged the farfamed seas | 282 |
And so from night to night | 283 |
What can you do scoundrel against the air? | 284 |
To all to you | 285 |
American sand solemn | 286 |
THE FLOWERS OF PUNITAQUI | 289 |
Brother Pablo | 290 |
Hunger and Rage | 291 |
They Steal Their Land | 292 |
The Flowers of Punitaqui | 293 |
Gold | 295 |
Went Beyond the Gold | 296 |
The Poet | 297 |
Death in the World | 298 |
Mankind | 299 |
The People | 300 |
The Letter | 301 |
THE RIVERS OF SONG | 303 |
To Rafael Alberti Puerto Santa María Spain | 307 |
To González Carbalho in Río de la Plata | 312 |
To Silvestre Revueltas from Mexico on His Death Oratorio Minor | 314 |
To Miguel Hernández Murdered in the Prisons of Spain | 316 |
NEW YEARS CHORALE FOR THE COUNTRY IN DARKNESS | 319 |
The Men from Pisagua | 321 |
They Receive Orders Against Chile | 332 |
Theres No Forgiving | 333 |
You Will Struggle | 334 |
Happy Year to My Country in Darkness | 335 |
THE GREAT OCEAN | 337 |
Births | 339 |
The Fish and the Drowned Person | 341 |
The Men and the Islands | 342 |
The Statue Builders Rapa Nui | 344 |
The Rain Rapa Nui | 345 |
The Oceanics | 347 |
Antarctica | 348 |
Children of the Seacoast | 349 |
Death | 350 |
The Wave | 351 |
The Seaports | 352 |
The Ships | 356 |
To a Ships Figurehead Elegy | 357 |
The Man Aboard the Ship | 359 |
The Enigmas | 360 |
Stones of the Seaboard | 361 |
Gongorine Mollusca | 363 |
The Battered Birds | 364 |
Leviathan | 366 |
Phalacrocorax | 367 |
Not Only the Albatross | 368 |
Marine Night | 369 |
AM | 373 |
The Slingman 1919 | 374 |
The House | 375 |
Travel Companions 1921 | 376 |
The Student 1923 | 377 |
The Traveler 1927 | 378 |
Far from Here | 379 |
The Dance 1929 | 380 |
The War 1936 | 381 |
Love | 382 |
Mexico 1940 | 383 |
On Mexicos Walls 1943 | 384 |
The Return 1944 | 387 |
The Wood Line | 388 |
Combative Kindness | 389 |
The Steel Gathers 1945 | 390 |
Wine | 391 |
Fruits of the Earth | 392 |
Great Happiness | 393 |
Death | 394 |
Life | 395 |
Testament II | 396 |
Dispositions | 397 |
Am Going to Live 1949 | 398 |
End Here 1949 | 399 |
Notes | 401 |
Common terms and phrases
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